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Sort is a command-line program that allows standard input or specified text files to be sorted in various ways such as numerically or alphabetically, and then the result can be displayed in the terminal or sent to file.

I have been trying to figure out if it is possible to sort Google Keep notes from a terminal, but I am not that good with Android. Does anyone know if Keep notes on a connected Android device can be ...

I am running Ubuntu 12 and a while back I wrote a small script file to manipulate a text file which I use for a workshop index.
The most important function is to sort the file into alphabetical order ...

I know this is a seemingly peculiar question, but I want to have a better understanding of using Linux utilities so I'm going to ask for something that seems rather complicated to me to understand the ...

I have hundreds of folders and each folder contains thousands of files. I want to identify the "first" file among all files of all folders, "first" being defined by the lexicographical order of the ...

I want all the files in my Downloads folder to be sorted by modification date, but all other folders, and files in other partitions to be sorted by name. How can I do that?
Edit: I want Nautilus to ...

I need to sort the lines of a text file (without any extension) where the lines are separated by %. When using sort command, those %s are also getting sorted out which I do not want.
How to sort the ...

Can I sort files in Dolphin into date order on Kubuntu 12.04.01?
It was suggested (can't remember where) that Nepomuk would do this. If this is so, how do I enable Nepomuk. The application appears to ...

Let's say I have 2000 .ODT files. Their names are random numbers. How do I go about searching for, let's say, "pricing list"? How do I find the document I need without opening all of them one by one ...

I have a powerful machine with 32GB RAM, 10TB hard disk storage, and an Intel Core i7 3.3Ghz processor. We installed Ubuntu Server 11.10 and tried some scripts: the most impressive was a sort file.txt ...

I have many folders in my home directory that have names that begin with special characters such as _OLD_500GB_HD or !FolderIWantToSeeAtTheTop, but for some reason these folders are sorted according ...

After downloading tv shows and movies I would like them to be automatically moved to two separate folders (named "tv shows" and "Movies").
I know there are a lot of programs that you can do this with ...

I'd like to have some folders on top e.g. on Windows I had _videos folder which would always appear on top. How do I achieve the same effect in case of Nautilus? It's rarely the case I'd need similar ...

Are there any file managers that allow unsorted folders on usb drives? I can select manual sort on my hard drives fine, but when I connect a usb mass storage device the option for manual sort is gone ...